Joe Compton has returned home having spent weeks in hospital being treated for serious injuries.

The 11-year-old suffered a cardiac arrest, electric shock and severe burns when he was struck as he waited to be collected from Dorcan Academy in Swindon, Wilts, in September.

But the young football fan can’t remember anything about it.

Mum Emma Dean feared her son would not pull through. She said: “Many people hit by lightning don’t survive, so Joe is very lucky.

“The burns surgeon told us he had never dealt with a lightning strike in 25 years in the job.”

After gruelling treatment including skin grafts at Bristol’s Frenchay Hospital, Joe was sent home last week. He said: “I can’t really remember anything that happened that day or even waking up in hospital.

“I don’t even remember any pain because I blacked out.”

Joe will be fitted with a special body suit next month to help with his recovery, and he cannot be exposed to direct sunlight for at least two years.

On his release from hospital, Joe was invited to meet his heroes at Swindon Town FC, where he was given a signed shirt, left, bearing the slogan “Lucky 1”.